week of september 15 and 17 (for lit class)

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September 15
NOTE: Change of plans for Thursday - the analysis of your literacy memoir will be due on next Tuesday (9/22) rather than this Thursday. On this Thursday, we'll begin have a workshop to analyze our memoirs and to find patterns across them.

The Literacy Club - SR Chapter 2

1. Returning literacy memoirs and feedback; talking about analysis phase of the assignment
  • What does the writer (you) want the audience to notice about literacy and/or learning?
  • According to the writer, what's the way things SHOULD be with literacy and/or learning? (not typically explicit in the piece)
  • What would the audience have to believe in order to agree with the writer?
  • What is missing that might dispute or challenge the writer's position?

2. Returning to our surveys of our literacy -
  • Notice any patterns
  • Name them
  • Apply to working with young people - what practices might you want to survey them about; how might their practices be different

3. The Inquiry Square
An example with a Peanuts comic strip
  • What's the purpose of reading comic strips?
  • How can we help students get the "stuff" to be able to read a comic strip?
  • What do we have to do with the "stuff" so that they can recognize this genre (comic strips)?
  • How can we help students to articulate the meaning that this text communicates to us?
  • How can we help students to recognize and articulate how the text's structure and construction help to make this point?

For next time, bring your literacy memoir again


September 17
Goal: Understand what we need to do on literacy memoir analysis and begin the process

Literacy Memoir Analysis
Literacy Memoir Analysis.doc

Hand out the assignment sheet and explain
Read one another's memoirs as analysts and provide notes for the writer to use

Return to our in-class surveys on our literacy practices from last week
What did we learn? (about our literacy and about the survey process)
What do we notice?
How might we survey young people to better understand their literacy practices? What questions might we ask?